[Found here.]
Twitter suspended that user’s account, @statuefun, for violating the ToS, presumably for promoting violence and/or tobacco use.
Statues
Category: Cool
Absquatulating Hot Links
I Can See Everybody’s Baby, Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers (1955)Ruth Brown was known as “Miss Rhythm” and “The Queen of R&B,” while Atlantic Records was called “The House That Ruth Built.” The Rhythmakers [sic] provided backup vocals and were better known as The Drifters.
Brown recorded many hits from 1949-1955, and faded from public view in the ’60s to become a housewife and mother. She returned to music in 1975 at the urging of Redd Foxx.
“Click here.”
Road deaths 2018-19, UK vs. US.
[Top image: Still from short film Adiosu (2013) by Martino Pinna found here.]
Hurricane Ida live tracking images via WeatherUnderground; animated satellite image at NOAA.
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Saturday Matinee – Colin Bowden, BeauSoleil, Ida Mae, Ike & Tina Turner
“I LOVE the slushy groove of 85 year old Colin Bowden, who lays down Dixieland drumming like no other!”
Definitely Slushy and Groovy.
Bowden passed away on August 1, 2021. [h/t Corinne L.]
“By capitalizing the “S” in the middle of BeauSoleil, the Cajun band’s name becomes beautiful sun, but the truth is the band is named for an Acadian resistance fighter. Joseph Broussard Beausoleil fought the English in the mid-1700s.”
Ida Mae is husband/wife team Christopher and Stephanie Jean Turpin, roots rock musicians from Norfolk, UK, who met after joining a soul band while attending Bath Spa University. Now they’re recording in Nashville Tennessee.
Don’t try your love on sexy Ida… She not only wants your love, she wants your life after that. Don’t do it.
Ike & Tina Turner, Soul Train, 1975.
Hope all y’all in Ida’s path have either bugged out by now or are at least hunkered down in a safe place. She ain’t worth the risk just for bragging rights.
While you’re at it, toss in a prayer for our citizens and military still stranded in Afghanistan. I fear that worse horrors are coming…
See you back here tomorrow.
Brilliant.
I had a TV just like that. It stopped working when a raw egg somehow got into the rear vent over the CRT and fried it.
[Found here.]
The Pompetous of Love
Saxicolous Hot Links
Bop Cat Stomp, King Charles & His Orchestra (1954)Except for discography and a few audio recordings on YouTube, I can find almost nothing about Charles Morris (aka King Charles, Blue Charlie Morris, Left Hand Charlie and Morris Charles). If anyone has a link to his background, please leave a comment and I’ll update this post.
X-Ray animation of beatboxing?!
The International House of Logorrhea is my go-to source for Hot Links titles.
Billy Ireland & the KKK. Good stuff (despite some unnecessary extraneous commentary). Nice collection of Ireland’s work here.
Misc. – Still trying to bitchslap the new WP format into something tolerable. It’s almost there, I’m still messing with the unpredictable, and I’m not responsible for the overuse of white space. – Bunk
[Top image found here with the caption: “A female pit brow worker, the photograph was probably taken at the Wigan Coal and Iron Co Ltd.”]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 694 – How To Win At Cat, Custom Signs & Leaf Drop
[Cat Winning h/t rightymouse. Signing Lady captured from Biden speech 8 July 2021. Leafdrop found here.]
BTW – this is our 5,501st post!
Floodwaterbug
International Textbook Defacement Day
Balmoralitistic Hot Links
He’s Gone, The Chantels (1957)One of the first R&B “girl groups” to hit the charts, the Chantels were Arlene Smith. Sonia Goring, Lois Harris, Jackie Jackson and Rene Minus, all schoolmates from the Bronx. They had been singing together since 1950 and honed their harmonies practicing hymns (and Gregorian chants). In 1957 they scored their first hit with He’s Gone, written by lead singer Arlene Smith.
The Clavis Inferni by Cyprianus.
“Hi. This Is a List of Butt-Related Words.”
Opening Windows in 1985; MS Paint at 13:20.
[h/t Corinne L.]
Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights so he cut the wires.
Dear WordPress: Really? REALLY?!? [Related gripe here.]
[Top image source lost at the drive-in long ago.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 